No fountain in the garden? No worry, your plants will give you the effect but of course with no sound ;-) Some display lots of blooms while others lush foliage. This time my Alocasia x mortfontanensis Andre (African Mask) bears leaves that are smaller than usual but more in numbers. I like the markings!

This plant appeared in my garden "voluntarily" from one of the pots in 2009. A free plant and it flourished freely ever since :-D

Mirabilis jalapa (Four O'Clock) certainly takes its time to bloom. Its flowers usually open in the evening. While the striking colour of the blooms strike the eyes, its sweet fragrant makes the nose gay. Wonderful plant to have for a show of colours, even in dusk.Yellow Forever Roses came back quickly, almost forever blooming. Certainly a must-have rose :-)The other yellow flower in the garden was Monocostus uniflorus (Lemon Ginger). Spot the two yellow blooms in the picture below...A real lemon... Grown it from seed in my kitchen...Here is a group of dwarf plants (Dwarf Syngonium, Peperomia puteolata, Maranta leuconeura var erythroneura) that I have been growing on a rack in my porch. I was intrigued by them while snapping photos as they were all growing towards the direction of the sun...The other plant that is forever blooming is my dwarf Azalea. Sorry if you are bored with me sharing about this plant :)Almost every time, it will flower profusely. So I cannot not update!How lovely :-)My red Gloxinia is in bloom and the picture below shows the first flower. Two other flowers followed after this one...

Grass-like plant (a sedge I presume) is also another plant that gives a fountain-like effect. It can be more outstanding than the flowers...Have a wonderful fountainous day :-)

The rain and cloudy skies have brought lots of wonderful happenings in my garden. I was glad to see my Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus) sending its second bloom and it was huge one. And well formed!!

The shrub has never had a flower this big before. The blooms that were on the shrub when I brought it home about five years ago were only about two-third of this size. The petals are thicker than the petals of my usual H. rosa-sinensis blooms. Both flowers measures close to 5 inches in diameter. This time round, the flower has two extra petals. The flower (that I'd shown in earlier post) behind is wilting after it opened the day before.How strange to see a short shrub bearing such a huge bloom!Since I took so many pics of this bloom, here is another pic for your admiration ;-)

A butterfly finding nectar from the flower... The pic below shows the flower close to its actual colour i.e. lavender. The eye is dark red. Because the colour is rich and the size of the bloom is big, I thought this is probably a variety called 'Minerva'. Can anyone confirm the variety?Happy growing Rose of Sharon!

Not much sun and most of the time just cloudy. It rained on a few occasions, otherwise a bit humid. Anyway, my One-Day-Yellow Desert Rose is blooming! There is a bud behind this bloom that would probably open the next day. Though it didn't make it in time for this post, it should be in the next :)In spite of the lack of sunlight, I think the weather is just good enough for my Rose-of-Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus). The flower that opened was such a large one. It was about 4 1/2" (11.5 cm) wide!Behind this beauty I can see another huge flower bud forming. I hope it is going to be a big bloom like this one and I also wish that the petals are more well formed... greedy me, right?The shrub is planted in a pot and it is not really tall...The other hibiscus that is blooming at the same time is my Hibiscus acetosella 'Red Shield'.The flower closes so fast, leaving the deep burgundy red leaves to shine in the afternoon.My Cypress Vine is flowering less this week. Its seeds are forming! I usually don't keep them and don't get rid of them either. Just let Nature does its work :-)

It is a notorious self-seeder. Before this vine, one was flowering at another corner of the garden. The seeds just sprout easily in the garden.Oh, this little bloom... it is a flower from my Maranta leuconeura var. erythroneura. Glad to see this shrub flourishing well in my shade garden.And this Phalaenopsis bellina... another beauty! I over-watered the earlier one, hence rotted. This is a new plant. I hope I won't over-water again. It is especially hard to gauge whether to water or not to during cloudy days. Anyway, love the bloom so much :-)Have a wonderful day!!

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